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#1 Posted : 25 July 2009 19:31:00(UTC)
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Posted By FAH
We've had a geat number of questions on fire safety - especially over the last couple of years on this Forum - & there has been considerable valuable debate on the range of issues raised.

However, a large number of posts seem to repeat a relatively narrow range of issues, & the respondants also tend to repeat their previous responses - especially where the UK fire safety regime is concerned.

Could I ask the Moderators to consider providing a "sub-forum" which is devoted to UK fire legislation & sensible compliance? This would make it far easier to prevent fire topics being buried amongst the substantial number of other very worthy threads & posts; it would also make it far easier for potential posters to search previous threads & locate pre-existing relevant information.

I'll now retreat to the relative safety of the grandchildren & await the onslaught!

Frank Hallett
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#2 Posted : 26 July 2009 01:45:00(UTC)
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Posted By Crim
Hear hear! Agree good idea!
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#3 Posted : 26 July 2009 08:16:00(UTC)
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Posted By martinw
Frank
you know the potential responses. Everyone else who thinks that their work area is more interesting to them than any other will say: let's do the same for construction/rail/oil/gas/electricity etc, etc, each of which has in some ways a good case for a seperate sub-forum. Other sites already have different groups for this purpose. Also the more specialist a field, the fewer the practitioners, and the fewer posts as there are less specialists to talk to. Would it be better for those bods to
not have to wade through the generalist questions which appear, to get to the one in a hundred questions on their specialist subjects?
I know that there are already some other specialist forums exist before I am helpfully informed.....:-)
Martin
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#4 Posted : 26 July 2009 09:41:00(UTC)
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Posted By Richard Hammer
If you want fire safety advice, better to go to the fire safety forum rather than a health and safety one in all honesty.

This site is excellent for fire safety,technical advice.

Some members can bite though.....

http://www.kingfell.com/~forum/index.php

Come and join the gang.
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#5 Posted : 26 July 2009 11:09:00(UTC)
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Posted By FAH
Thanks for the responses Crim & Martin.

Crim, you'll have seen my response to your other Post?

Martin, I'm not advocating a seperate fire safety forum exclusively for fire safety experts; just the provision of a more efficient mechanism that enables potential users [of any & all interests & competencies] to focus better on what has been discussed previously & for their problem of choice to be better identified without being so rapidly buried by the many other very worthy threads 7 responses.

I suppose that it wouldn't hurt to apply the same principle to a number of other topics as well.

It's not about segregation & excusivity; it's about making it much easier to find & view previous threads that are relevant to your particular issues.

Also, whilst a specialist Fire Safety Forum will naturally have considerable value; I perceive that one of the strengths of this IOSH Forum is that it enables a far wider range of opinion to be readily cross-matched & evaluated. Fire safety doesn't exist in isolation from H&S or Enviro; nor vice-versa!

Frank Hallett
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#6 Posted : 26 July 2009 11:56:00(UTC)
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Posted By martinw
I agree Frank and never thought that your intention was to be elitist. I do like the generalist format of this forum, for the main reason that I understand but have no working experience of a good deal of what is discussed. I have no clue about CDM other than studying about it a while ago, for example; I work for a small very specific company which does not afford multidisciplinary interactions with other health and safety specialisms. This forum therefore is one of the methods of accessing resources which I use to learn. So I would dip in to other sub-forums but I find that when specialists in other areas have deep discussions about their topics it becomes necessarily a bit esoteric: my blame for being ignorant about that particular topic, I suppose.
Anyway - perhaps sub-forums as part of the members forum? Otherwise those deep impenetrable discussions may be as meaningless to guests as they are to me.
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